Good, I'd hate to be right all the time :)

S3 is a young OS, it was launched Oct 2010 and it had one device for a while. E7 was the second device, and it was launched Feb 2011. Still, Ovi shows 93 pages of 12 apps per page in the "free" category. That's approx 1100 apps and games in ~6 months, more than N900 had at this age, and, like I said, it will go up.

E7 doesn't benefit from all the ports N900 did, however, it does benefit from a huge app base from S60. A lot of apps are compatible, but there wasn't time to test and push them, you'll need to use Google, other phone sites, look for them. Other OSs don't have the centralized repository concept Linux does, each user can publish his own content. Many do, as Nokia puts apps through tests and each version takes 8-14 days to push through.

I agree that 1000 N900 apps don't equal 1000 S3 apps, because with N900 it was ports first so we got cool/necessary stuff first, and with S3 we get fart apps first, since they are easier to port or even forward compatible. Still, give it time.

Also, apps are cheap. One dollar is not something one can't afford for a good app. I paid for a few. At least I have the option. There is no full screen caller or customizable ring screen for N900, and I always wanted that. Having the option is important I think. You can always beg on a forum for someone to offer you one for free, as is the case here. For me, that was always one of the things I hated.

I am unsure about which connectivity you are talking about. If you mean wlan/BT/USB, then I think E7 is better overall. It is annoying to see it close connections to WLAN all the time, but when I turned it off it went from 2 days usage to almost one. Back to power saving it went in 0.3 seconds. BT is the same. USB is nicer.

If you mean chat/skype/IM then N900 was better. As it stands written in the review, Telepathy is unparalleled. Still, there are solutions. I have a green round think on my desktop showing I'm online on G Chat. No voice or video though.

Yes it can. In and out.

Agreed. So does E7. How is this disagreeing? :) I never said E7 was right for a wedding. And it has that farsightedness that's annoying. Still, if you do a home video, you can do it in 720p smooth, or in 480 choppy.

[QUOTE=vkthor;1068745] And the screen? Seriously, you think a 640x360 screen, however good or amoled it'd be, is better than a 800x480 one? I for sure don't think so. Browsing with the E7's browser is a living hell, Opera does a nice job but it is in fact a MOBILE browser while Fennec is a desktop one (flash included).[QUOTE]

Screens aren't always about text. With text, resolution is better. With images and multimedia, color rendering is better. If you are reading a text site, N900 is the way to go. You don't want to hold it next to E7 with a picture showing, though.

What I'm trying to say is, there's almost never something "better" in every way - there are people who claim we were better off in caves. All advances are tradeoffs (except maybe IDE) and there will always be a drawback - LCD has no blacks, plasmas eat power and burn in easily, CRT is bulky and gives you cancer, DLP has no contrast, 3D gives people headaches, OLED loses color balance in time, and so on. Let's not even start on how most can't afford what technology can do, but what cheap technology can do.

You may spend 90% of the time reading full text pages - the E7 might not be the best for you. Though it is my personal opinion that while you can't cram as much text as you can with N900, it's usable.

E7 is a smartphone, N900 is an Internet Tablet, and, more than that, it's a platform that runs Linux, as crippled as that Linux is. Some things are derived from this difference and will never go away - such as no terminal and gconftool and no conflict of thumbnailerd with camera because of not-for-phone multitasking design.

I have a distinct feeling that your "disagreeing" is mostly agreeing with findings but disagreeing with verdicts (am I wrong?). In which case I'd like to point out that verdicts are subjective, it is the order of things. Victory is life!